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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the distinguished Senator from Baringo should read the dictionary meaning of the word “paramilitary.” I want to use this opportunity to congratulate the young activists who on Tuesday last week occupied Harambee Avenue. We created pressure and the same cowards said that we had been paid by foreigners to occupy the avenue. We occupied Harambee Avenue because of the children who had died in Mandera. We occupied the avenue because of the police officers who had died in Kapedo. That was an act of patriotism. If anything, the only thing it cost me, now I can reveal is that I spend Kshs15,000 to buy coffins which were blocked before they arrived there. I wanted to make a big statement that we had coffins that we would use to burry people. There was no foreign money. The issue of politicising the war on terror is something for which the President should also bear blame. The President was in Mpeketoni and politicized the war on terror by saying that it was being attributed to local political networks and ole Lenku followed it very closely saying that CORD was recruiting Mungiki and members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), so as to cause instability and"
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